Intimacy in cinema : critical essays on English language films / edited by David Roche and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot ; photographer Alex Bailey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roche, David, 1976- editor.

Schmitt-Pitiot, Isabelle, editor.

Bailey, Alex, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimacy (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser''s theor

Contents:

Acknowledgments; "I feel different inside"; Touch and Gesture; Exposing and Threatening Female Intimacy and Sexuality; Fictions of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Fiction; The Impossible Sex Life of Couples in the Screwball Comedy; Intimacy Shared in Laughter and Tears; The Intimate Gaze; Shooting Stars and Poet Friends in My Bedroom; Public Confessions in American Revolution 2; The Limits of Hypermasculinity; "I've got you under my skin"; Filming Fantasy, Imitating the Intimate in Eyes Wide Shut; J. Edgar; Intrusions of the Other; Hidden Worlds and Unspoken Desires

"Extimacy" and Embodiment in Hunger and ShameKeira's Kiss; Melancholy, Empathy and Animated Bodies; About the Contributors; List of Names and Terms

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1711-2